Hello,
I'm an IT engineer at a collega in The Netherlands. We've been using Autocad/Inventor since version 2008. 2008 and 2009 worked flawlessly. However, with our recent deployment to Autocad/Inventor 2011 we're running into major problems.
A description of our workstations and network:
We run a Windows Active Directory domain and our students' AD accounts are connected to mandatory profiles. Thus they cannot make changes to their network profile. Our teachers and other personal all use roaming profiles.
Our workstations are deployed using Symantec Ghost Console. Due to the size of our college we do not run 1 exclusive ghost image for everything. Our Autocad classroom is a certified Autocad trainings center thus due to licensing this classroom has its own image. For this classroom we have a 25 user license which is not a network license.
On preparing the image we install Autocad 2011 and Inventor 2011 on Windows XP SP3. We direct the templates to a network share and the supportfiles to the program files\Autodesk folder. We save the image and than deploy the image to the 25 clients.
What went wrong:
Inventor 2011 runs without issues. However, Autocad 2011 is acting up. It gives a popup upon starting the application saying it cannot find the profile "undefined profile". Inside the application some things do not work. For instance, when students or teachers click "insert" on the ribbon to insert a block, the block editor doesn't pop up. Also the tiny menubar on the top-right of the screen doesn't appear while the quicklaunch on the top-left does. Also when they close Autocad and than start it again, the ribbon is gone. They can get it back by typing ribbon in the commandline but its odd.
We compared the Autocad 2011 installation with somebody who had a standalone installation on his private laptop and it seemed as if our version of Autocad 2011 installed a lot less.
Me and my colleague are not Autocad experts though and we are quite unable to resolve these issues. Thus we ask for help here. What could we have missed here that's diffirent from 2009?
Regards,
